Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan [Paperback]

Learning to Bowhas been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.

A refreshingly original look at Japan&this book is a revelation.A hilarious and revealing book [that] marks the debut of a formidable talent.Always fascinating and often funny&one of those rare books that shows the Japanese as fully rounded human beings.Mark Salzman fans and other aficionados of things Eastern will love&Bruce Feilers Learning to Bow.Gems of insight and understanding.An engaging book, Learning to Bow earns higher marks than the usual scholarly analysis.Filled with rich anecdotes that tell far more than dry, academic tomes on the same subject.A charming and incisive close-up of the most important part of the Japanese miracle- the making of a Japanese.As fascinating an account of Japanese life as you could find anywhere&Dont miss this one.